Fans pack Bernabeu to see Cristiano Ronaldo unveiled as Real Madrid player

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When Cristiano Ronaldo was playing for Manchester United he usually had the air of someone who thought that everyone at Old Trafford had come to see only him, despite there being 21 other players on the pitch. So he was in his element last night, with 80,000 fans at the Bernab?u to see the Portugal player’s bow in the white of Real Madrid.

And not only supporters, some of whom had been queueing since 9am. Alfredo Di Stefano, the legendary forward whose No 9 shirt Ronaldo will inherit — not even a world record fee of £80 million was enough